It is not improbable that the sudden release of the button may have touched the wires and have set them ringing.

The peal is described as being short and sharp.

This theory is a weak one, we are aware, but the whole case is so mysterious that, weak as it is, we can offer no other solution.
"Mrs.Herne, the servants, and Messrs.

Hale and Clancy were examined.
All insist that Miss Loach was in her usual health and spirits, and had no idea of committing suicide, or of being in any danger of sudden death.

The weapon cannot be discovered, nor the means--save as we suggest above--whereby the assassin can have made his escape.